false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190053989m/1901241.jpg 1901241 2 <P>An outstanding piece of interdisciplinary scholarship, i The Body Emblazoned /i is a study of the Renaissance culture of dissection which informed intellectual inquiry in Europe for nearly two hundred years. Though the dazzling displays in Renaissance art and literature of the i exterior /i of the body have long been a subject of enquiry, Jonathan Sawday considers in detail the i interior /i of the body, and what it meant to men and women in early modern culture. br br Sawday links the frequently illicit activities of the great anatomists of the period, to whose labors we are indebted for so much of our understanding of the structure and operation of the human body, to a wider cultural discourse which embraces not only the great moments of Renaissance art, but the very foundation of a modern idea of knowledge. Illustrated with thirty-two black and white prints, i The Body Emblazoned /i re-assesses modern understanding not only of the literature and culture of the Renaissance, but of the modern organization of knowledge which is now so familiar that it is only rarely questioned.</P> 2403582 1995 The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture total:10|5:6|4:4| 10 46 22 1 5 0 false false Thu Jan 22 06:48:27 -0800 2009 Wed Jun 18 20:44:45 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 22 06:48:27 -0800 2009
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